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[โ€“] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 28 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

passed criminal justice reform

I entirely forgot what Trump did. But I'm still pretty darn sure it was pure politics, superficial, and in no meaningful sense "reform".

personally pardoned black inmates

How many people? ~5? And he pardoned some rappers. That was pure politics too.

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If some net rando gets the details wrong - I don't think anything of it. But politics is her fucking job and it pays her mortgage and her bills. How can anybody be so stupid?

Ninja edit. It's a rhetorical question of course.

[โ€“] RION@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago

To your first point: First Step Act

Of course like most any legislation a president takes credit for it's literally "signed his name and didn't block it". But that might put Trump above Biden in terms of actual criminal justice reform